I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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